VIENNA (AP)  The head of the U.N. drug watchdog agency is urging U.S. federal officials to challenge ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults 21 and over.

Raymond Yans says the approvals send a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.

Raymond Yans says the approvals send a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.

Very strange.

Use of cannabis has been legal in the Netherlands for years. Britain simple does not enforce their drug laws where cannabis is concerned and yet I have never heard of the UN worrying about the how these nations laws would send the wrong message abroad about this dreadful drug.

I hope the UN isnt expecting the US to be the leader to world any more. After all Obama is a leader from behind kind of despot.

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posted on 11/20/2012 6:29:42 PM PST
by Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)

First of all, I don’t smoke and do an occasional beer. However living here in Colorado, I voted for Amend 64 on marijuana more as a states rights issue. For the UN, the best thing they can do it mind their own business and FOAD.

Why are not potheads screaming for all medical drugs to be legalized? We should be a free people, and not need expensive prescriptions in order to take an antibiotic, or some other drug we decide that we might need to take. It is easy enough to do your own research and figure out what drug you might need, and if you are willing to experiment on yourself, you should be free to do so. Most would still go to their expensive doctors to find out what to take, but for the rest of us, whatever happened to our freedom? Plus, look at the people who die of cancer, who would be willing to try new experimental drugs, but cannot because they haven’t been “approved” by the FDR. Look at all the cures that have been canned because they don’t make drug companies billions of dollars. The important thing is that all of the bought off drug companies prosper, not whether the people die horrible, debilitating deaths or not. There are many causes around freedom to champion that are far better than defending being potheads.

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posted on 11/20/2012 7:14:06 PM PST
by Bellflower
(The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)

Hey! Stay out of our business! With Communism USA now on the fast track, we Americans are going to need all of the drugs we can get! I’m not playing that Vodka crap like the Russkis used to deal with communism there.

I’m with you for the most part, but not on the antibiotics. When people misuse them, they ruin their effectiveness for all of us. We’re already losing the race with bacteria building resistance, if we let everyone misuse them to their heart’s content, I’d be willing to bet antibiotics would be worthless within our lifetimes.

I live in Washington State and am wondering why having more pot available to people is a good thing?

Those in your government dont care whether there is more pot or not. There priorities are first raising revenue by taxing pot smokers and second reducing the number of non-violent offenders in their jails.

Not a pot smoker myself but I can understand the point. Jailing pot smokers makes little sense unless they are driving under the influence.

But somebody that wants to sit at home listening to Pink Floyd while eating pizza and smoking pot does not present a danger to the public worthy of imprisonment.

If they can reduce taxation on booze by taxing pot and keep more violent criminals in jail longer by not sending pot smokers to jail they got my vote.

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posted on 11/21/2012 4:47:31 PM PST
by Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)

Except that it is the doctors who have caused them to be heavily over used in the first place. With a little knowledge many people would not have used them so heavily as their doctors prescribed for them to use them. They would give them out like gumdrops to people who had viruses such as colds to placate them into thinking that something was being done for them, and they likely got kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for selling them.

I have used an extremely small amount of them in my lifetime, because I know the risks. I have used them less than I have been prescribed them. If knowledge was king, rather than blind trust of authorities, such as doctors, the people could be trusted to make just as good as decisions as professionals and without the added pressure of being used to make money off from them. I think most people would get medical consultation anyway, but would be more responsible about their own personal medical decisions.

Interesting thing is that with my pets I often out knowledge the vets, who finally come to the point of prescribing what I knew was best in the first place.

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posted on 11/21/2012 8:02:54 PM PST
by Bellflower
(The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)

“People are smoking it now - better to have the money for it come to the state coffers than to drug cartels in Mexico where it funds violence.”

Hm...so you want more pot at cheaper prices (possibly) and widespread availability so your kids and grandkids can be taught that - because pot is legal - it is okay to smoke? I agree with you on States’ rights - no problem. But to have a hallucinogenic substance widely availabe in a free society cannot produce anything good. There will be more impaired people on the road...just like alcohol. I would rather pay for an unending “war” than open the door and let the Trojan horse in the front gate.

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